Moyashimon Blog Posts

Microbes are typically measured in micrometers, but in Moyashimon—a show about students at an agricultural university—they seem to span about five centimeters. Curiously, nothing else in this series [...]
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This year marks the first time I’ve been able to participate in Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa Project! I was aware of it even before I started blogging, but my schedule always got so busy around this [...]
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Yes I’ve raved about the first season. It was brilliant after all. The second much-anticipated season however, was equally brilliant in my opinion. I know that a lot of fans were disappointed. Sure it wasn’t as funny, nor was it original anymore. It became more like a drama. But honestly, that doesn’t make it any … Read more
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I have loved this series ever since I watched it the first time round. This second watching just confirms how much I enjoy the show, the characters and of course the micro-organisms. This show about a boy who can see and communicate with various bacteria is informative, funny and yet manages to mix in … Read more
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Sawaki Tadayasu and his childhood friend Yuuki Kei have just entered Tokyo’s College of Agriculture. At the surface, both friends appear to be like the countless other college students, but on the [...]
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Personal note: let me take a moment before my thoughts on the anime to apologize for my break in blogging. Life has been busy lately, as indicated in detail in the personal update box in the right-side column on my … Continue reading →
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Personal note: let me take a moment before my thoughts on the anime to apologize for my break in blogging. Life has been busy lately, as indicated in detail in the personal update box in the right-side column on my … Continue reading →
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Let’s brew! The microbial adventures of the agricultural students continues. While the second season of Moyashimon wasn’t bad, it also wasn’t that memorable. The first arc was particularly lackluster— I can barely even remember what happened. I think there was some … Continue reading →
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The Noitamina timeslot and sequels don’t go well together. For a long while there were only three series that got a continuation: Bake Neko, Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile, the series that made the timeslot as popular as it is today. And then a Moyashimon sequel got announced. Yes: more antics with the guy [...]
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Hey, currently posting from an outskirt town in Cornwall, England and resting a bit from my trip to Napels, it sounded like a good idea to check out Moyashimon’s conclusion. In the end, it turned out that the climax of the series was last week. This instead was an aftermath. Everyone returned to Paris and [...]
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What made the original season of Moyashimon a celebrated and beloved anime were its awkward and lively characters and the zany comedy that accompanied the lives of freshmen at a wacky agricultural university outside of Tokyo. The second season, Moyashimon Returns, was doomed to mediocrity from straying from this effective recipe, instead opting to delve [...]
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What made the original season of Moyashimon a celebrated and beloved anime were its awkward and lively characters and the zany comedy that accompanied the lives of freshmen at a wacky agricultural university outside of Tokyo. The second season, Moyashimon Returns, was doomed to mediocrity from straying from this effective recipe, instead opting to delve [...]
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It feels like Moyashimon Returns finished when it was just getting started. Even though the entire finale was dedicated to goodbyes in France and Hellos in Japan, Marie finding the perfect thing for her dad to do that will keep him interested in the business, and Hasegawa free to return home, only to wonder what’s [...]
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I would think this is one of those NoitaminA seasons that people often see it as one of its stale moments in Anime. We got an Anime soap drama and we got a sequel that I would think not many even watched. While I was one of those people, I ...The post Review: Moyashimon Returns appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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If there was one thing no anime fan was expecting this year, it was the announcement of Moyashimon Returns. It is, as might be indicated by the name, a sequel to 2007’s Moyashimon. A quirky and odd series about some students and professors at an agricultural university with a focus on fermentation, Moyashimon was generally [...]
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Looks like the second season of Moyashimon gets the honor of being the first one on my list to finish its run. All in all it wasn’t as bad as its reputation, but didn’t really measure up to its predecessor either. The first reactions to Moyashimon Returns were quite hilarious thanks to the much revamped [...]
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All’s well ends well I guess. So, Hasegawa’s resolved her fiancée issue and the gang is all back together for now. All in all, it was actually a pretty bland season of Moyashimon. I almost lost interest a few times over the airing but I persevered. It just really didn’t have the pull of the [...]
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